A spiritual conversion from night into day was completely done around Christmas in 2007. The new spiritual age of “daytime” has already begun.

conversion 転換

completely 完全に

daytime 昼間

What I’ve been thinking these days is that spirits who were not able to come out into the World of Reality because of their being sealed up during the dark age of the World of the Dead have been appearing on the surface. As I prognosticated in this blog over and over, spiritual beings similar to you in nature and spirituality have been gathering around you. Observe your present state of mind dispassionately.

1. I can be grateful for my daily lives. I’m in the state of emotional warmth.

2. I think I can be positive somehow though I have some physical pain and the work is hard.

3. It takes all the energy I have just to live. Troubles never end.

4. I feel ill at ease somehow. I have a vague uneasiness and my physical condition is bad, too.

5. I feel depressed. I can’t dissipate the gloom.

6. I often get pissed off. I’m always irritated.

and so on.

these days 近頃

seal up A Aを封印する

prognosticate 予告する

over and over 何度も

similar 似ている

gather 集まる

observe 観察する

dispassionately 冷静に

emotional warmth ほのぼのとした感情

somehow どういうわけか

physical 身体的な

pain 痛み

trouble 悩み

feel ill at ease 心が落ち着かない

vague 漠然として

depressed 鬱な

dissipate 追い払う

gloom 陰鬱さ

get pissed off 腹が立つ

irritated イライラした

If you can try holding a memorial service for your ancestral spirits and reminding yourself of gratitude in such conditions mentioned above, it would be great. It is meaningful and valuable to be able to hold a memorial service with gratitude and remind yourself of gratitude to God in this World of Reality . If you can be grateful in the face of difficulties, you may have already reached enlightenment.

try ~ing 試しに〜してみる

ancestral 先祖の

remind A of B AにBを思い出させる

meaningful 意味がある

valuable 尊い

in the face of A Aに直面しながらも

reach enlightenment 悟る

A man who has truly reached enlightenment is like this:

” if there is a sick child to the east, going and nursing over them if there is a tired mother to the west, going and shouldering her sheaf of rice if there is someone near death to the south, going and saying there’s no need to be afraid if there is a quarrel or a suit to the north, telling them to leave off with such waste when there’s drought, shedding tears of sympathy,when the summer’s cold, wandering upset

called a blockhead by everyone without being praised without being blamed”

– a man who always has a smile on his face calmly and concentrates on now.

sick 病気の

nurse 看病する

shoulder 担ぐ

death 死

afraid 怖がる

quarrel 口論

suit 訴訟

waste 無駄なこと

drought 干ばつ

shed tears 涙を流す

sympathy 同情

wander 彷徨う

blockhead でくの坊

praise 誉める

blame 責める

calmly 穏やかに

concentrate 集中する

You must not mistake a unique, personal mysterious experience for enlightenment. Such a unrealistic, eccentric experience is just self-satisfaction, which is meaningless for many other people in terms of the development of mind and is nothing more than a personal experience.

must not ~ 〜してはいけない

mistake A for B AをBと取り違える

unique 特殊な

personal 個人的な

mysterious experience 神秘体験

eccentric 奇異な

self-satisfaction 自己満足

in terms of A Aの観点から

development 発達

nothing more than A Aに過ぎない

I feel Jugyuzu（十牛図） , a set of ten drawings of cows which depict the path leading to the enlightenment of Zen meditation, describes an aspect of enlightenment very well. According to the drawings, personal enlightenment is just ranked as 6th out of 10. In the last tenth drawing, where the final stage of enlightenment is described, a practitioner of austerities who has reached enlightenment, growing up from a child to be Hotei（布袋）, a god with a potbelly who is one of the Seven Gods of Good Luck, goes out into the town and play with other children innocently. He, spiritually awakened, is never alone.

drawing 絵

depict 描く

path 道

describe 描写する

aspect 側面

a practitioner of austerities 修行者

innocently 無邪気に

awakened 目覚めた

The final stage of enlightenment is that you live with gratitude for everything in the mundane world enjoying “now” with other people. That you can live your life being grateful in this miscellaneous society is truly sacred state of mind. To reach enlightenment, you must not be separated from social life. Let’s do our best in our present life without forgetting gratitude, shall we?